UK Literary Luvvies #3 Logistical reasons mean the only recommendations I have are Greek cleaning products
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imtakingabath
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I was coming here to say the same thing! I wonder if she doesn’t have a particularly good relationship with her mum and that’s part of why she so desperately wanted a daughter for that mother/daughter bond.
NomDeGuerre
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PEAK LL wankery in this review
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maytoseptember
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Yeah, it’s hardly a brand new concept is it? Someone I know did a PhD in bibliotherapy about 20 years ago. If Daisy starts acting like she invented the concept they’ll be spitting feathers.
Marian Keyes as Proustian hahaha
geneticsgirl
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Someone isn't a fan of Elizabeth day but I do agree her podcast does reek of privilege.Oh one commenter off the sycophants of main stream media gets it …
Her mother's day post was the first thing I saw when I opened Instagram this morning now to make it all about you. Not a mention of her own mother or her step kids.
SharkAttack
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Brilliant article. I love Julie Burchill.Oh one commenter off the sycophants of main stream media gets it …
mindlessness
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Burchill is a bit intense for me personally but she's on the money wrt Day not actually having failed.Oh one commenter off the sycophants of main stream media gets it …
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Thanks for sharing - excellent read. Extremely mediocre sums up ED perfectly.
atome74
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Great article
Great article, she clearly does not have time for Elizabeth, wow.
I do agree there's a real class component to this... By normalising failure to this extent it's really solidifying the narrative that upper middle class people can expect to fail several times BUT ALWAYS succeed in the end, and it's a kind of justification for how insanely rich they end up at the end of this.
As someone who came from an extremely solidly middle class, middling-amount-of-privilege background, I am struck at how DULL my failures are, and how they wouldn't make for good podcast listening. One time I got a borderline pass at uni so decided to switch majors. I worked for the public service for 10 years, ended up in a role that I hated passionately, and then *gasp* switched to the private sector. I haven't listened to HTF, is it really that much more interesting?
Oh one commenter off the sycophants of main stream media gets it …
Great article, she clearly does not have time for Elizabeth, wow.
I do agree there's a real class component to this... By normalising failure to this extent it's really solidifying the narrative that upper middle class people can expect to fail several times BUT ALWAYS succeed in the end, and it's a kind of justification for how insanely rich they end up at the end of this.
As someone who came from an extremely solidly middle class, middling-amount-of-privilege background, I am struck at how DULL my failures are, and how they wouldn't make for good podcast listening. One time I got a borderline pass at uni so decided to switch majors. I worked for the public service for 10 years, ended up in a role that I hated passionately, and then *gasp* switched to the private sector. I haven't listened to HTF, is it really that much more interesting?
SharkAttack
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I find HTF un-listenable to because of ED’s gross sycophancy. She is sickeningly sucky to her interviewees, at least in the five or so episodes I’ve tried to get on with, and her tinkly laugh and slightly Americanised drawl just do my head in.
Fish & Chips
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HTF is like bullshit bingo for words like ‘profound’
Completely agree. Burchill nails it.
Love_hate_small_town
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Urghhhhh ‘I see you’ needs to duck off. Elizabeth obviously ends her self congratulatory post with this. I cannot imagine those words ever helping me. Bit like when someone says ‘I’m sorry’ when you’re having a witch/ rant. I don’t want you to be sorry, I want to to join in with my witch rant you vanilla bore.
It’s the quality of writing, the delivery, the language … something I have never seeing from an LL
Ugh she’s everywhereno mention of fertility luckily but she chucks in Magpie
but she’d never boast about her life eh (“glorious babies etc”)